Eagle-versus-cat standoff in Vancouver park captured in photos, video
An East Vancouver man captured an unlikely animal encounter when an everyday house cat and a majestic bald eagle had a tense faceoff in a park.Peter Davidson was at the...
Musicians promote ‘empathy, fraternity, solidarity’ between Israelis and Palestinians
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, appointed by the UN Secretary-General in 2016 as a United Nations Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding, recently played their first concert at UN headquarters in New...
London partygoers rave to robot beats
In front of an empty DJ booth at an East London nightclub, partygoers danced to AI-generated beats in a unique experimental rave that sought to test whether an app can...
China-made Mugin-5 drone downed in eastern Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine CNN — Driving deep into the forest, the hush between the towering pine trees and the clear blue skies was splintered every few seconds by the sound of...
Scientists Discover That Managing Emotions Better Could Prevent Pathological Aging
These findings suggest that better managing negative emotions may help reduce neurodegeneration.A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has uncovered the ways in which negative emotions have a lasting...
When it comes to pensions, Britain’s women are still a long way from equality. Why? | Ros Altmann
In 21st-century Britain, there is still a shocking gap between men’s and women’s pensions. While public discourse has been dominated by the gender pay gap, which has been almost eliminated...
Skis, Songs and Shots at a Supremely Norwegian Sports Festival
OSLO — For two days before this year’s Holmenkollen cross-country ski races, Espen Garder took his remote meetings from a heated tent in the forest. Breaks came only for lunch...
Biden Rejects Spending Cuts and Embraces Tax Increases on Wealthy
Months after losing control of the House in 2010, President Barack Obama and his vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr., released a budget proposal that bowed to Republican warnings about...
After Bank Debacle, Silicon Valley Reckons With Its Image
On Sunday afternoon, Prashant Fonseka was flying to San Francisco from Austin, Texas, with other techies returning from the South by Southwest conference. Midway through the flight, federal regulators announced...
The new normal already? Examining the changing probability of a summer-like fall
Temperature distribution over South Korea during 2021 early October. Credit: POSTECH In October 2021, South Korea experienced a heatwave of an unprecedented magnitude. During the first half of the month,...